Field of Orange Cosmos
Field of tall orange Cosmos at Hamarikyu Gardens in Tokyo. Leaving for the airport in a few hours. Sorry to leave, but eager to see our garden at home.
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Notes from a wildlife-friendly cottage garden
The Golden Pavilion in Kyoto, Japan
We’ll be back on Saturday. Lots and lots of pictures to share.
From the Garden of the Silver Pavilion
Nice, huh?
Shinto Shrine in Takayama
Tall trees surround a Shinto shrine in Takayama, Japan. More to come.
Koishikawa Stroll Garden, Tokyo
Wondering where I’ve been? Well, here’s a woodland scene from the Koishikawa Stroll Garden, a 15 acre garden in central Tokyo that goes back almost 400 years. More to come.
Highlights of the Minneapolis Fling
So I have been to the Minneapolis/St. Paul area about a thousand times. We have a son living in St. Paul, plus my brother and an old college friend live in Minneapolis. We felt that we had seen most of what there was to see. So our expectations for this year’s Garden Bloggers Fling were …
A Ferry Ride Down the Bosporus
I’m on a work trip this week and this evening I was looking at pictures from our family trip to Turkey, which was back during the 2009 Christmas Holidays. I’ve written a couple of posts about our time in Istanbul, which you can find here, here, here, and here. Overall it was an incredible trip …
Montreal Miscellany
We flew back to Chicago from Montreal on a Sunday, but we had a few hours to enjoy the city before heading to the airport.
At the Inn of the Frog Eaters
After our visit to Reford Gardens we drove about 40 miles east to the village of Le Bic. There we stayed at a place called Auberge du Mange Grenouille, which means, according to Judy, either the Inn of the Frog Eaters or maybe the Inn of Eating Frogs.
Reford Gardens Part II
Reford Gardens hosts an International Garden Festival, consisting of show gardens put together by artists and design teams from around the world. As the website says, the Festival is a “forum for innovation and experimentation.” The 2015 festival had 28 gardens that were on display from June through September.
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